[josm-dev] Fwd: start of gwtosm the google webtoolkit port of josm

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
> gwt is a java to javascript compiler that promises to allow us to port
> parts of the josm to an very thin client,
> i have the absolute basics (just points) being displayed now, check it out.

Forgive my being thick but I still don't see the point. Surely 
Javascript that has been auto-generated from JOSM Java code will never 
be able to match a proper editor devised in Javascript from the ground 
up, and there have been impressive steps in that direction (chrschmidt's 
OpenLayers based feature editor comes to mind).

If one wants more than that, one can run JOSM as an applet in the browser.

Is there really any hope that you will arrive at a anything remotely 
usable by modifying JOSM so that it is a better basis for 
auto-generating Javascript code? This sounds very much like wishful 
thinking to me. I mean you're free to try of course, I'm sure it is an 
interesting experiment ;-)

And Avar, if one wanted some kind of more or less clean engine/library 
as a basis for other projects, JOSM would be the worst choice in my 
eyes. Much better to start with either the JOSM-NG codebase or the 
existing Java osmlib that has been built for Traveling Salesman!

Bye
Frederik

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